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Overpopulation, corrruption, and the socialist system are some of India's problems. When you have a country of 1.2 billion people (or so) and it is a little more than half the size of the U.S. you're going to have a lot of poverty. In a socialist system, you don't really compete to produce the best products. Many of the jobs are government jobs and effectively guaranteed for life with a lock-step system in place that rewards seniority, not competence or excellence. The deadwood get promoted along with everyone else. There are a lot of smart people in India and many of them get out of there. The socialist system there will be very difficult to change. Private industry is getting bigger, but many Indians want to be in system where they're guarenteed lifetime employment. In 1948, when England give them independence, India had two choices: follow English socialism or American capitalism. India went with socialism.

...a country of 1.2 billion people

It has more people than I thought.

Even in our Capitalist system, we have enormous poverty. Some would say do away with the welfare state, and while it sounds good it's never going to happen. Politicians barely have the spine to cut back on the increases. I think at the very least though, we should not give illegal aliens anything but a one-way ticket back home. What would be even worse is if WE were a country of a billion. There's no way we could sustain a population of that size and keep a welfare state.

I'm not against immigration, just that right now it's lacking in common sense. You don't import people while Americans are being laid off, and you DON'T let millions of illegals pour in here with no enforcement.

India had two choices: follow English socialism or American capitalism. India went with socialism.

We spoke about this in prior threads, my conclusion is that India continues to maintain the caste system.